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reminder that PCOS is an intersex variation and bullying, harassing and misgendering people who have PCOS isn't helping the intersex community, or anyone else, for that matter. there's no reason to be rude or say it doesn't "count". thats not for you to dictate. you're not helping other intersex people by saying people with PCOS aren't intersex, all you're doing is hurting intersex people when you do so.

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September is PCOS Awareness month, and I'd like to point out some of the many symptoms people with PCOS deal with everyday...

moon face

excessive body hair, arm, chests, back, face, legs and buttocks

irregular periods

painful periods

extremely heavy periods

constant bloating

mood swings

struggle to lose weight

struggle to gain weight

food cravings

high cholesterol

insulin resistance

oily skin

acne

insomnia

fatigue

sleep apnea

depression

anxiety

tubular breasts

dark and sensitive underarms

skin tags

belly fat

high testosterone

excessive hair loss

thinning hair

pelvic pain

infertility

ovarian cysts

And so much more, as well as having to struggle to even find a doctor who will take any of our symptoms and pain seriously. The medical industry needs to take better care of women, intersex and trans folks with PCOS and Endometriosis.

Our pains are real and we deserve better.

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okay kind of related to the ask another anon sent about being trans and hating being called a twink because of it, why do people also IMMEDIATELY assume trans guy means youre a submissive bottom,, like i used to force myself into that roll to fit in and it fucked me over really badly actually, like genuinly it pisses me off when thats the stereotype that gets pushed so much,, and whenever that got pushed on me those same people NEVER want you to have surgery or take hormones its like a fucked up weird mix of transphobia and misogyny or smthn

ding ding ding its the rape culture bell!!!

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I am fucking sick of cishet people telling me that queer people have it great in the US.

Trans people are no longer allowed to leave the country.

Being queer in public is being labeled as a sexual offense against children + the right is pushing for the death penalty regarding child sex offenders.

They literally want to kill us. Full stop. No, Dad, America is not better than "those African and Middle Eastern countries where you'd be stoned to death", the only difference is that we'll be doing our executions of gay and trans people with more bureaucracy and less rocks.

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Anyway if nothing else matters then I hope people remember that Pope Francis used his last public address to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and call Israel a terrorist state:

"I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. It is terrorism."

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Hey, in the horror of the new law in the uk which defines what makes a woman, please don't forget about intersex women. They're not getting affected by it "by proxy" or whatever. It is a real danger for intersex people as well.

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Hey, in the horror of the new law in the uk which defines what makes a woman, please don't forget about intersex women. They're not getting affected by it "by proxy" or whatever. It is a real danger for intersex people as well.

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Hey, in the horror of the new law in the uk which defines what makes a woman, please don't forget about intersex women. They're not getting affected by it "by proxy" or whatever. It is a real danger for intersex people as well.

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Hey, in the horror of the new law in the uk which defines what makes a woman, please don't forget about intersex women. They're not getting affected by it "by proxy" or whatever. It is a real danger for intersex people as well.

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fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

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Sometimes I get a little over whelmed when i look and think about my boys [formal term] (my blorbos [common term])

:(

I lvoe them so much !but guys... My insides... I'm goung to explonde if you keep existing !

</3 :(

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I was rockin a 103 degree fever for like... four days? It was apparently a cold. But I was super dizzy and out of it the whole time, and with a LOT of muscle weakness (some pretty bad difficulty breathing too??). The dizziness has gone away with the temperature, and I'm perfectly mentally okay, but the muscle weakness is still there and although the difficulty breathing is mostly gone it's still present. I can walk, but it's very sketchy. I can't pick much up. My head hurts pretty much whenever I move it. Every time something like this happens I just have to wait and try to figure out if I'm getting better or if these symptoms are just getting added on to my daily routine. PLS tell me this isn't just my life now 😥😥

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i have been absent for a while, but like a canadian goose to an abandoned K-Mart parking lot, I will always surely return.

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I feel like trans people take gender a lot less seriously than literally everyone else

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really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

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Trump basically declared disabled people ‘unfit to work’ as he put it by revoking the Equal Employment Opportunity Law of 1965. It means employers no longer have to legally give accommodations to disabled employees. This will render so many Americans jobless and barely anyone is talking about it because disabled people like me are treated as expendable.

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Just cried. “So this is how democracy dies… with thunderous applause” has never been so strongly felt